carried out by eighteen-year-old Eric Harris and seventeen year old Dylan Klebold in Littleton‚ Colorado. Their original intention was to set off their bombs in the cafeteria‚ and when everybody ran out of the buildings‚ they would shoot them from a distance. When the bombs failed to detonate‚ they changed their plans and just started running through the school and shooting at anybody. This effectively killed thirteen people (fifteen including Harris and Klebold)‚ and wounding twenty-three others
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the town of Littleton‚ Colorado. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold‚ the shooters‚ have very diverse backgrounds. Eric was intelligent while being cool at the same time. He manages to get superior grades‚ while doing shameful things. However‚ “Dylan Klebold was a meek‚ self-conscious‚ and authentically shy. He could barely speak in front of a stranger‚ especially a girl” (Columbine 6). Judgment Day‚ the most tragic day in school history‚ is what Eric and Dylan called their mass murder. This day
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depressed teen‚ Dylan Klebold‚ and the psychopath‚ Eric Harris‚ had been planning every detail of the massacre for almost a year. Their goal was to kill as many people as possible. Eric and Dylan injured twenty-four people and killed eight male students‚ four female students‚ and one male teacher. Then they committed suicide in the school library. Many people want to know why the two teens would do such terrible things. Some people thought they would never know why‚ but Eric and Dylan left behind a
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1999. Eric Harris‚ who was the mastermind behind the massacre‚ and Dylan Klebold‚ who contributed only because he was searching for a way to end his life‚ had been planning to place bombs in the school and shoot anyone who survived for almost over a year and a half. Before Eric and Dylan entered Columbine on April 20‚ Eric and Dylan had been arrested for breaking an entering‚ and Eric had the police called on him and had threats on his website filed. In between all this chaos‚ Eric and Dylan were
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“Why did they did it” This is why Eric and Dylan went on their killing spree. Dylan got upset because Eric had a different friend when Dylan was grounded for the actions he did at the school later on in the school year. When he was at home he didn’t have television‚ laptop‚ or phone. He would sit in his room and he would think about different things in his head like killing himself or other people. In the book it says‚” then he weighed the other option: He named a friend and said will you get
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In Littleton‚ Colorado on April 20‚ 1999‚ high school seniors Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris arrived at their school with the intent to become the most prolific killers the country had ever seen. Inspired by the Oklahoma City bombing‚ they planted homemade bombs in various areas of the school to exact large scale death and destruction‚ while armed and waiting outside to shoot any escaping survivors. In addition‚ they placed explosives in their cars to target arriving emergency personnel. After the
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the shooting. In early ’98‚ when Harris and Klebold committed a petty vandalism in the neighborhood this brings police awareness about the two boys Dylan Klebold‚ age 16‚ and Eric Harris‚ age 17. In May ’98 the Browns‚ (neighbors of the Harris’s) turn in a 9-page print out of Eric’s web site over to the police. The web site was filled with violence‚ hatred‚ and aforementioned threats‚ in spite of all that there was no action taken. In June of ’98 Dylan and Eric began building pipe bombs‚ the parents
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that children commit. When two young men‚ Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold‚ went on a shooting spree in Littleton‚ Colorado‚ killing fifteen people‚ including themselves‚ there was a public outcry for censorship of every type of entertainment and changes in gun laws despite Eric Harris’s journal entry titled‚ “Last Wishes” asking that no one be blamed‚ other than himself and Klebold‚ for the massacre (“Diaries and Journals of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris”‚ par. 2). After the 1999 school shooting now
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On April 20‚ 1999‚ two teens‚ Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold‚ went on a shooting rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton‚ Colorado. They killed thirteen and wounded more than twenty before turning the guns on themselves. It was the worst school shooting in U.S. history. It caused a huge investigation to determine what motivated the boys. It was a pretty tragic event that changed the safe feeling that any high school student felt across the country. Dylan Klebold‚17‚ was the child of upper class
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teenagers‚ Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. They took guns with them to their school‚ Columbine High School‚ stood at the west entrance ready to shoot students. Thirteen people where killed by this incident and twenty were hurt. Then Dylan and Eric killed themselves‚ leaving us with the mystery of why they had done what they did. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris were teenagers who worked in a pizza parlor together. They were involved in sports in middle school but not in high school. Dylan and Eric were part
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